The Tempted Bride by Anne Hedonia

Author:Anne Hedonia [Hedonia, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Erotica, General
ISBN: 9781506124858
Google: PIkQrgEACAAJ
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Published: 2015-01-07T14:27:38.998520+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

Abbey retired to a leather couch in the far comer of the Turf Club where the full realization of the enormity of her disaster finally manifested itself. She had lost six hundred dollars in less than 45 minutes. She had been so sure that her actions were in keeping with Jim Abraham’s instructions. Admittedly it had been foolish in the first race to play a hunch; that wouldn’t happen again! But she had followed Jim’s axiom on the last race: Make sure your information comes from reliable sources.

Gradually her disappointment gave way to a smouldering resentment, then to anger… anger at herself and anger at the track. Some people made money at the track. She, too, would make money — or at least enough to get back her six hundred dollars. Then she would quit. After all, she had a head for figures and knew now how the game was played. The decision made, Abbey counted the money in her purse. Twenty-two dollars! She put the two dollars aside for cab fare home, then quickly went back upstairs seeking information. A few minutes later she had purchased five two-dollar win tickets on a horse called Yellow Raft. She disliked standing in the two dollar ticket line; it seemed to be filled with riff-raff, seedy looking people. Yellow Raft won easily, but paid only $3.60 for each two dollar win ticket. On the next and last race of the evening, Abbey pooled her original twenty dollars with the eight dollar winnings to bet a big, beautiful black horse by the name of Bar Bar Black which was going off at six to one. Abbey made a swift calculation and decided her tickets would be worth about $210 when the horse won.

Screaming encouragement, jumping up and down, and her body afire, Abbey saw Bar Bar Black come out of the gate and take what appeared to be a commanding lead. Then, on the far outside, a gray began closing ground. The two horses nosed up to the wire at almost the same instant. Abbey was positive she had won, even though the Photo Finish lights were on. Then, after waiting for what seemed to be an eternity, with her knees actually quaking and throat painfully dry, she saw the photo lights blink out and the winner posted. It was the gray; Bar Bar Black finished second.

Abbey rode silently home in the taxi. She could not ever remember being so weary as she was at this moment; it was as though she had been ill and running a high temperature. She was completely debilitated, washed out, but not too tired to feel the dull anger at the track still smouldering inside her brain.

When she got home, she went directly upstairs and to bed.

This time she didn’t even think about the mail before sleep overcame her.

On Saturday, Abbey cashed a hundred dollar check at the nearby super-market where she was known, and went back to the track, determined that today would be the last time she ever visited it.

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